Sport: Running Wild

Clarence Franklin Francis is 6 ft. 9
in. tall, and he was rated such a natural basketball prospect on Ohio's
high-school circuit that he was offered athletic scholarships by some 60
colleges. Now 20, married and the father of a five-months-old son,
gangling "Bevo"* Francis chose southern Ohio's obscure little
(enrollment: about 125) Rio Grande College because 1) it was willing to
overlook the fact that Bevo had not graduated from high school, and 2)
he wanted to follow his high-school coach. Newt Oliver, to college.